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About "Vesta - V3"

This artwork shows the asteroid 4 Vesta. Vesta orbits the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter at an average distance of 353 million kilometres. It is the second largest asteroid, having a diameter of about 538 kilometres. Under favourable conditions, it is the only asteroid visible to the naked eye. NASA's Dawn spacecraft photographed this worldlet from a distance of about 15,000 kilometres away, on 16 July 2011. A smaller, unrelated asteroid is shown in the distance, although in reality, close encounters between asteroids are exceptionally rare.